Not just sheltered – BROUGHT OUT

Not just Passover, but Red Sea crossing. Not just saved by the blood, but delivered over to new life. Not just baptised into His death, but sharing in His resurrection That’s the gist of this sermon on Exodus 13 and 14 – preached last night. We looked at Passover last week.  We rejoiced in the [...]

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Glorifying the Other – the heart-beat of God’s own life

From Halden: “I do not seek my own glory” (John 8:5). With these words Jesus set a precedent for all those who claim to follow him. Fundamental to the call to discipleship is the renunciation of seeking to glorify, to magnify, to enhance and promote oneself. It is often thought that this calling is based [...]

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Two questions regarding Piper on Wilson

1) How does Piper square his love of Jonathan Edwards with his own pre-mill and credo-baptist theology?  Is there anywhere where he talks about parting company with Edwards? 2) Does anyone see the irony of two young guns bumping fists behind Piper just as he lays into the dumb guys that surround Wilson?  Or was [...]

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Anthropogenic?

There’s a mouthful of a word. Perhaps we’re aware of the term ‘anthropogenic’ to describe climate change?  The climate is changing – climate always does – the question remains, is man (anthropos) the cause (genesis)? A lot of people say yes.  Some say no. This guy says “maybe… some… but that’s not really the issue.” [...]

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Happy Friday

Here’s a literal take on Take On Me.  But I bet you’ll smile more because of the original.

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What’s the Problem?

This is a Thawed-out Thursday Re-post.  There a reason why I’ve chosen this one, but I’ll let you in on it later… . Once I was in a preaching seminar with 15 other young guns.  We were being taught by someone you might call a living legend.  One session was on how to preach Romans 3:21-30.  [...]

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No Richard, I don’t believe in that god either

Dawkins was asked in an article – Where does evolution leave God?  He answered: “Before 1859 it would have seemed natural to agree with the Reverend William Paley, in “Natural Theology,” that the creation of life was God’s greatest work. Especially (vanity might add) human life. Today we’d amend the statement: Evolution is the universe’s [...]

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Prayer is a bloody thing

Though I wasn’t keen on Tony’s quote – I really liked this post. The only pathway to the Living God is paved with Blood Read the whole thing. .

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Christ Alone, Grace Alone, Revelation Alone

I’m halfway through Mike Reeves’ excellent lectures on a theology of revelation.  Go and listen now if you haven’t done already. Maybe I should put them somewhere prominently and permanently on the blog because they explain much better than I can the thinking behind ‘Christ the Truth’.  To be an evangelical theologian is to have [...]

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It’s what’s on the outside that counts

  Don’t believe Satan’s lie.  It’s not what’s on the inside that counts.  At the end of the Day what really matters is what’s on the outside. Take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door-frames… when I see the blood, I will pass over you.  (Ex 12:7,12) [...]

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Time for a Spring Clean

… in the southern hemisphere anyway. But as the weather turns decidedly Fall-en here, I’m still thinking about Spring cleaning.  The reason being – I’ve just preached on Exodus 12 tonight.  In preparation I was thinking about the Feast of Unleavened Bread (I speak about it some more in my 1 Corinthians 5 sermon). Basically the [...]

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Flavia Cacace is Astroboy

Few people will know both Astroboy and Strictly Come Dancing.  But for those who do… the comparison cannot be denied. .

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A couple of thoughts on Dawkins

I think, actually, [Richard Dawkins is] a pre-Christian atheist, because he never understood what Christianity is about in the first place! That would be rather like Madonna calling herself post-Marxist. You’d have to read him first to be post-him. As I’ve said before, I think that Dawkins in particular makes such crass mistakes about the [...]

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Happy Friday

Codepoke is worried about our ever-expanding information/entertainment culture and its effects on face to face relations.  Here is yet more evidence of this worrying trend.

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Open Air Preaching with Wesley and Whitefield

I’m loving Lex Loizides’s blog.  At the moment he’s taking us through the history of open air preaching from Howell Harris to George Whitefield to John Wesley. Here’s Wesley’s journal entry the first day he tried open air preaching: At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways [...]

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Preaching a felt Christ

In a sermon I’ve just listened to, Martin Lloyd Jones said this: No man should preach unless he preaches a felt Christ I take it he means that preachers must really know Jesus and preach to the end that their hearers know Jesus and hunger after Him – indeed taste and see Him.  I can’t [...]

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Thawed out Thursday – The God who is…

Here’s the first thing I ever published on the internet.  It’s the heart of my website began about 5 years ago.  It’s a decent summary of where I’m coming from theologically. This is the introduction to 5 Doctrine of God papers.   The God who is… Revealed in Jesus We meet the Living God only [...]

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Good news for the poor

Social engagement or evangelism-only?  . What is the mission of the church?   Here are three factors that unnecessarily polarize the debate: . 1) We think in terms of church programmes.  We frame the whole debate in terms of how many of our 15 scheduled hours of church-run activity must be devoted to helping the [...]

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